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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
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change. So our fourth option is contradictory: Time cannot be Dead if the Soul is Changing.~7
Since a subjective-perceiver must change in order to live, we can state that unless Time is Alive, Time must be Immortal.~8 Because Time must be Alive or Immortal in order to allow for Subjective-Perception, we are left with our first pair of options:
1. God is Alive, the World is Changing, The Soul is Dead, Time is Immortal
2. God is Changing, the World is Dead, the Soul is Immortal, Time is Alive
Now let us look at the first option. In this case, the Subjective-Perceiver is God�Objective-Perception is the Life of Subjective-Perception. The one thing that doesn�t seem to balance is that the Soul must be Dead. Since we have defined the Soul as Subjective-Perception, we can surmise that in this case the Soul represents the Meaningless (or History, or Language).
Otherwise it is very positive. We can conclude that the absolutely subjective perceiver with Objective-Perception has four qualities:
1. The Objective Perceiver sees himself and his perceptions as the significant factors, the substance of life.
2. Not only does the world change, the world is affected by change, that is, he creates or alters the world by an act of will.~9
3. Some things are meaningless to him.
4. If he is mortal, he understands that there are beings and significances beyond him-self.
Combining 3 and 4, we can say that he has the potential to value beings and significances beyond himself. We could take this to mean that he has a sense of self-identity, a body or soul which serves to ground him in the world.
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7. Insofar as the Soul changes, it ceases to possess a certain quality. That is a kind of death. If Time were dead, nothing would die, and no kind of death would be possible. Therefore the Soul would not Change. Also, conversely, if Time were dead, nothing would be Immortal. In that case everything would be meaningless. But there is no way to study what the meaningless means, so it is excluded from our study.
8. Immortality, or non-change, is the only form of Time that is neither alive nor dead. Since dead Time is no time at all, we are left with two types of Time, Time that is Alive, and Time that is Immortal. Because we are interpreting all change as a form of perception, even death is a form of knowledge. A truly subjective existence would involve absolute meaninglessness, or non-comprehension of any unity, for duration of consciousness. It helps to note that �all life is meaningless� is an objective claim. So the subjective perceiver can know nothing about his world, about what he is thinking. But thinking is a form of knowledge, it is part of the world. So the Subjective-Perceiver either doesn�t know anything, or doesn�t think that he knows anything. So he is an idiot, or he doesn�t think that his thoughts constitute knowledge. But I suspect that to think that ones thoughts don�t constitute knowledge, is to have an inkling of greater knowledge. So it may be that subjectivity is about absence of knowledge, or transcendence of the knowledge-condition.
9. Objective-Perception is alive only insofar as it acts on the world. If it did not act on the world it would not be perceived. We can call any such act an act of Willpower (or an act of Fate-Will).
Preface
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Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 4
Iteration 5
Iteration 6
PART II.
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PART III.
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PART IV.
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